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Pink Thunder, finally!

//HEY FOLKS//

Over the last six years I have been working on turning poems by two dozen fantastic American poets into indie-rock free-verse songs. The record that resulted from this project is called Pink Thunder. Happily and at long last, today is the official release date!

Pink Thunder comes in three flavors:

//BOOK+CD//

There’s a hardcover book version, which contains the CD of all the songs, along with with an introduction by Scott Pinkmountain, an artist’s statement by yours truly, and beautiful hand-lettered poems by Arrington de Dionyso. Published by Black Ocean Books. Here’s what it looks like (cover art by Tony Calzaretta):

//VINYL/DIGITAL//

There’s 12″ vinyl and digital from The Kora Records, and a pink vinyl 7″ from Howells Transmitter and Black Ocean.

//PORTMANTEAUS//

And for those of you in the Bay Area, the record is also available in portmanteau form. Portmanteaus combine a found object display with a digital music player. I made them (Mark Allen-Piccolo designed the music-player circuit). The Curiosity Shoppe in San Francisco will be showing the Pink Thunder Portmanteaus from October 18th to November 18th. There an opening party on October 18th from 6-8 pm. Please come!

//SHOWS//

We are booking shows around the US over the next few months. We’ll be at the Mission Creek Music Festival in Iowa City in April, and in Boston in March to play at AWP. More shows to be announced soon!

In the meantime, the San Francisco release show is November 18, just after the closing party for the portmanteau art show at the Curiosity Shoppe, at Amnesia. That’s an early show, from 7-9pm.

//INFO LINKS//

If you want to know more, hear the music, see a video or some pictures:

You can see the video for “Florida” (poem by Travis Nichols) hereYou can listen to Florida” hereYou can listen to “Civics” (poem by David Berman) here
You can see some more pictures of the portmanteaushere

//WHERE TO GET IT//

If you want to buy the book, vinyl or digital:

You can buy the book from Black Ocean here (first 250 orders get the pink vinyl 7″!):
or from Amazon here.Buy the musicfrom The Kora Records hereor from iTunes hereYou can buy the pink vinyl 7″ from Howells Transmitter here.
And you can see (and buy) the portmanteaus from 10/18-11/18 here. Here’s a picture from when I was putting in the installation: